2018-19 Men's Basketball News

SEWANEE, Tenn. - The Sewanee men’s basketball team finished the season capturing the Southern Athletic Association Tournament Championship for the first time, and the team earned an appearance in the NCAA Tournament since 1998.

ATLANTA - The Southern Athletic Association (SAA) has announced the Winter/Spring 2019 Academic Honor Roll. 119 student-athletes earned the honor at The University of the South for the Easter Semester.

SEWANEE, Tenn. - In partnership with the Sewanee Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and the Sewanee Department of Athletics, the 2019 annual year-end banquet was held on Tuesday night inside the Fowler Center Fieldhouse.

SEWANEE, Tenn. - Announced by Director of Athletics Mark Webb on Tuesday, Mick Hedgepeth has stepped down to join the coaching staff at Belmont University. Brian Emerson has been tabbed as the next head coach of the men's basketball program at the University of the South.

SEWANEE, Tenn. - The Sewanee men’s basketball team, champions of the 2019 Southern Athletic Association Men’s Basketball Tournament, will host three camps this summer on the campus of the University of the South.

SEWANEE, Tenn. - David Johnson, a politics major and business minor from Brownsville, Tennessee, has been awarded a prestigious year-long Watson Fellowship for 2019-20. Offered by the Thomas J. Watson Foundation, the Watson Fellowships offer college graduates a year of independent exploration and travel outside the United States. Watson Fellows must create, execute, and evaluate their own projects.

SEWANEE, Tenn. / KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Sewanee guard Luke Smith has been selected to the Second Team of D3hoops All-South Region and the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) All-South District Teams this week.

GREENSBORO, N.C. - The Sewanee men’s basketball team finished the 2019 season at the opening round of the 2019 NCAA Division III Men’s Basketball Championships with a 97-59 defeat over Guilford Friday night at the Ragan-Brown Field House.

SEWANEE, Tenn. / ST. LOUIS - All-Tournament MVP Luke Smith has had a roller coaster of emotion over the last few days. Just two days after he and his team brought a conference championship home in 22 years, he was selected to the D3hoops.Com Team of the Week and the U.S. Basketball Writers Association named him the National Player of the Week for Division III.

INDIANAPOLIS - The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) announced on Monday the 2019 NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship Bracket. The Tigers have drawn the Quakers of Guilford College in the opening round Friday night, March 1. Times have yet to be announced.

DANVILLE, Ky. - For the first time since 1997, the Sewanee men’s basketball wins its first conference championship with a 62-59 victory over the Regular Season Champions Centre College Sunday inside Alumni Gymnasium at the 2019 Southern Athletic Association Men’s Basketball Tournament Final. Winning their first-ever SAA Title, the Tigers will be going dancing into the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1998.

DANVILLE, Ky. - After falling to the Berry Vikings twice in the regular season by a combined 11 points, the Sewanee men’s basketball team avoided an epic comeback by the Vikings with a 70-63 victory Saturday night in the semifinals of the 2019 Southern Athletic Association Men’s Basketball Tournament inside Alumni Gymnasium on the campus of Centre College.

DANVILLE, Ky. - The Sewanee men’s basketball team used an 82-64 victory over 6-seed Hendrix College Friday night in the quarterfinals of the 2019 Southern Athletic Association Men’s Basketball Tournament from Alumni Gymnasium on the campus of Centre College.

ATLANTA - The Southern Athletic Association has announced the bracket for the 2019 SAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. Sewanee will enter the postseason as the three-seed, and the Tigers will rematch with the Warriors of Hendrix College Friday night in Danville, Ky.

SEWANEE, Tenn. - The Sewanee men’s basketball team capped off a 19-win regular season with a 77-67 victory over the Colonels of Centre College Saturday afternoon inside Juhan Gymnasium for Senior Day and the regular season finale.

SEWANEE, Tenn. - The Sewanee men’s basketball team suffered a home loss for the first time in 19 home games, as the Tigers were defeated by the Vikings of Berry College, 69-63, Friday night inside Juhan Gymnasium.

CONWAY, Ark. - A Hendrix field goal with 2.3 seconds remaining was the story as the Sewanee men’s basketball’s three-game winning streak came to an end with a 70-68 defeat to teh Warriors Friday night inside Grove Gymnasium.

SEWANEE, Tenn. - The Sewanee men’s basketball team took down Birmingham-Southern College to start second half action of Southern Athletic Association play Friday night inside Juhan Gymnasium with a 70-55 victory.